Over at Say Anything Blog, some really fascinating tea-leaf-reading about North Dakota’s House seat, with ramifications for the Senate race in that state this year.

For a while now rumors have been flying about Rep. Earl Pomeroy not running for re-election. The NRCC has been circulating Pomeroy’s name as one Democrat not willing to brave the stormy waters of the upcoming election season. A recent poll indicates that Pomeroy is losing to an unnamed candidate 50 – 42. Now comes news that Pomeroy’s press secretary Sandra Salstrom, almost certainly the one who gave the Wall Street Journal a rather interesting non-answer to a question about whether or not Earl would be running again in 2010, is resigning…
Is Salstrom just moving on to greener pastures? Is Pomeroy just doing a staff shake-up in advance of what’s shaping up to be a rough re-election campaign? Or is Salstrom leaving because Pomeroy has no intention of running for re-election?
Time will tell, but add this to the growing pile of evidence suggesting that there will be no incumbent in North Dakota’s House race next year.

As we’ve noted before, North Dakota’s governor, John Hoeven is trouncing current senator Byron Dorgan in a hypothetical match-up for the 2010 election. Some folks in that neck of the woods seem to think a Hoeven-Dorgan matchup is very likely, and they wonder if Pomeroy might want to run for governor some day in the not-too-distant future…